Morning Money Memo: U.S. markets are looking at a strong day on Wall Street, following positive labor market data for last month. Equities are up to start the final trading day of the week, on the heels of a 211 point gain Thursday. January jobs...

Morning Business Memo… This year’s back-to-school spending bills for many families will be more expensive than last year. The price pressure is not coming from stores but from schools, because of budget cuts in many districts. “We found that teachers are digging into their own...

The Dow Jones industrial average reached a record high this morning at the opening bell, surpassing a key level in its recovery from the 2008 financial meltdown. The Dow surged 147 points to 14,275 at 11:43 a.m. ET, topping the previous record high of 14,164 achieved on Oct. 9, 2007. Since the last

As voters in the United States have just cooled down from the 2012 election season, contests across the globe are just heating up. From Ukrain's disputed election, to Egypt, which held its first democratic election in centuries, a stream of countries are set for or have held highly contentious and

Now that the anticipation of the presidential election is behind investors' minds, the next hurdle of uncertainty is the fiscal cliff and Europe. Stocks are reaching lows not reached in months. The forecast for the European economy is gloomy, and Americans are anticipating gridlock over impending

German Chancellor Angela Merkel brings her tough-talking advocacy for austerity to ground zero of the European debt crisis Tuesday, and police in Athens are so nervous they are employing as many security measures as they would for a visit by a U.S. president. Police have...